Hospitality and service industries

This book, first published in 1904, is an early examination of England's monetary system: what it is, how it was founded, grew and developed.

This groundbreaking text brings together experts in the field of visual art markets to answer some fundamental questions: Is art a good investment?

Over the last fifty years, tourism has become firmly established as a development option around the world.

A security director must have knowledge of criminal and civil law, risk and personnel management, budgeting and finance, and a host of other areas in order to be effective.

This timely book is a comprehensive overview of customer service principles, theories, and practices.

Written specifically for students taking marketing modules within a hospitality course it contains examples and case studies that show how ideas and concepts can be successfully applied to a real-life work situation.

This book examines the cybersecurity phenomenon, looking at the folklore, the hype, and the behaviour of its practitioners.

This book reviews tourist motivations for making religious or spiritual journeys, and the management aspects related to them.

In an international political economy characterised both by constancy and change, this study, first published in 1996, links together one seemingly incongruous continuity in international trade relations with an increasingly dramatic development in the economies of industrial countries.

Collective Bargaining in Professional Sports provides a timely and practical overview of the impact and importance of the collective bargaining process in the business of professional sports in the United States.

This book brings together multi-disciplinary research and practical evidence about the role and exploitation of big data in driving and supporting innovation in tourism.

The hotel and convention management concentration prepares students to pursue careers as hotel and convention managers, special event managers, and tradeshow or exhibition managers.

The immense tourism offer available able to fulfil the individual needs leads the way to interchangeable products.

Geistliche Lieder und Psalmen, 1567, was compiled and published by Johann Leisentrit, a Roman Catholic priest who from 1559 to the time of his death in 1586, was Dean at the Cathedral of St.

This book explores the implications of descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive digital enterprises and their practices for different functional domains and in different counties during COVID-19.

Selected as one of Motley Fool s "e;5 Great Books You Should Read"e; In The AIG Story, the company's long-term CEO Hank Greenberg (1967 to 2005) and GW professor and corporate governance expert Lawrence Cunningham chronicle the origins of the company and its relentless pioneering of open markets everywhere in the world.

Construction Audit is becoming more and more prevalent, and organizations are appreciating its importance.

This book delves into tourist behavior and sustainable tourism, especially in the post-pandemic era.

From officially sanctioned, high-tech operations to budget spy cameras and cell phone video, this updated and expanded edition of a bestselling handbook reflects the rapid and significant growth of the surveillance industry.

The Geographies of Threat and the Production of Violence exposes the spatial processes of racialising, gendering, and classifying populations through the encoded urban infrastructure - from highways cleaving neighbourhoods to laws and policies fortifying even more unbreachable boundaries.

This volume brings together dynamic perspectives on the concept of liveness in the performing arts, engaging with the live through the particular analytical focus of audiences and experience.

With the economic crisis continuing into the 1980s, the necessity to adapt industrial structures to contemporary requirements became clear.

This book advances an alternative critical posthumanist approach to mega-event organisation, taking into account both the new and the old crises which humanity and our planet face.

With case studies from the USA, Canada, Chile, and other countries in Latin America, American Chinese Restaurants examines the lived experiences of what it is like to work in a Chinese restaurant.

Private companies are increasingly involved with the security of domestic violence victims.

This book contains research findings from three major study areas, natural sciences, social sciences, and public policy and management.

Issues of leisure and dying are not often discussed in depth by those in recreation or thanatology.

This book provides the foundations of BE, reviews the disciplines integrated within its methodology, and presents plentiful evidence of its power by giving detailed application cases, including impressive results in private and public situations.

Securing the Digital World: A Comprehensive Guide to Multimedia Security is indispensable reading in today's digital age.

This book offers new insight into International Sports Events (ISEs), examining the relationship between sport, tourism and events.

The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies innovatively combines the ways in which scholars from fields as diverse as philosophy, psychology, religious studies, literary studies, history, sociology, anthropology, political science, and economics have integrated the study of Sikhism within a wide range of critical and postcolonial perspectives on the nature of religion, violence, gender, ethno-nationalism, and revisionist historiography.

This Brief discusses impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Portuguese tourism sector.

Bitter herbs, salty water, a sweet apple mixture, the shankbone of a lamb--what is the meaning behind these symbolic elements?

This book explores all aspects of the sharing economy, pursuing a multidisciplinary approach encompassing Service Design, Spatial Design, Sociology, Economics, Law, and Transport and Operations Research.

This book is a compilation of chapters on scientific work in novel and innovative reference that compiles interdisciplinary perspectives about diverse issues related with Industry 4.

Ecotourism is a unique facet of globalization, promising the possibility of reconciling the juggernaut of development with ecological/cultural conservation.

What do fashion buyers do?

For more than 2,000 years, between 1500 BCE and 600 CE, the Egyptian processional oracle was one of the main points of contact between temple-based religion and the general population.

New Zealand's wine came to the world's attention in the late 1980's with its production of some of the best quality sauvignon blancs.

This bold, pioneering book explores rites of passage in America by sifting through the accounts of influential thinkers who experienced them.

This book provides a holistic and accessible approach to sustainable fashion management.

Cities are staging more events than ever.

Within events management, events are commonly categorised within two axes, size and content.

Ritual has been long viewed as an undisputed and indisputable part of (especially religious) tradition, performed over and over in the same ways: stable in form, meaningless, preconcieved, and with the aim of creating harmony and enabling a tradition's survival.

A new history of Islamic practice told through the aesthetic reception of medieval religious objects.

Truly a practical work, this handbook offers a comprehensive roadmap for designing and implementing an effective information security program based on real world scenarios.